There is a saying that "tomatoes should be cooked and more nutritious". Is it true?/You don't say.

Tomatoes are a common vegetable in people's lives. Tomatoes taste sweet and sour, and have a high occurrence rate in cooking. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is a very classic dish. As for how to eat tomatoes, people also have different opinions. There is a view that tomatoes should be fried to be the most nutritious, while some people like eating tomatoes raw very much, thinking that tomatoes taste better raw.

Tomatoes are rich in lycopene. Tomatoes contain a lot of lycopene. Lycopene is a substance that is very beneficial to human health. It can resist oxidation and has a certain preventive effect on cardiovascular diseases. However, because of its structural characteristics, fried lycopene is more conducive to human absorption, so some people think that only fried tomatoes are more nutritious.

Vitamins in tomatoes are not destroyed during cooking. Some people who like to eat tomatoes raw think that tomatoes will destroy vitamins and other nutrients because of high temperature heating during cooking. However, through research and experiments, it is found that in the general cooking process, the vitamins in tomatoes are not highly destroyed except for long-term stewing, and when frying, just adding some vinegar can protect the vitamins in tomatoes and avoid being destroyed.

Just eat raw and cooked according to your personal preference. In fact, no matter whether tomatoes are eaten raw or cooked, the nutrients are not too bad. First of all, lycopene will be dissolved in vegetable soup during cooking. If you eat vegetables instead of soup, a lot of lycopene will be wasted. Secondly, when eating raw tomatoes, if we eat other fatty foods, these foods can still help us absorb lycopene from raw tomatoes. Therefore, whether eaten raw or cooked, the nutritional difference will not be particularly great. Don't worry too much about this, just eat according to your own preferences.